How Old Is The Separation Between Church and State?
Rabbi Akiva's Critique of Sageocracy
There’s a common view that the separation between Church and State is a modern, secular division. And yet the notion that the spiritual best are not the sovereign best is older than the Peace of Westphalia.
Why would the great Talmudic sage, Rabbi Akiva, warn his son, Rabbi Yehoshua, “Do not live in a city whose leaders are sages (Talmidei Chachamim)?” […
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